<p>When the company I worked for miscalculated the market in the 80s and went under a few years later, tens of thousands of us were let go, including many good people. As a company our products were out of touch with market requirements and the market put an end to the company ensuring that firms with better products survived. </p>
<p>I don’t know about this school, but speaking in general terms, public sector entities, whether they are schools or local/state/fed government, they do not have the same requirement in being useful and good to be able to survive. However bad the output of a school, it is generally not shut down, and the poor performers, especially union employees, cannot be removed easily.</p>
<p>So while this sounds draconian, it’s nothing different than in industry, and if they can use this to weed out the bad performers, overall it would be good.</p>